New Zealand falls out of love with sheep farming as lucrative pine forests spread - eviltoast
Sheep numbers in sharp decline as farmers increasingly shift to forestry, fuelled by demand to earn carbon credits

Sheep numbers in sharp decline as farmers increasingly shift to forestry, fuelled by demand to earn carbon credits

  • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The really perverse thing is there’s no intention to ever harvest it. If they did that they’d have to pay back the carbon credits. They plant it and leave it, gather carbon credits quickly for 40 years. The rate slows down to a trickle after that as the canopy is mature. There is really no plan after that. Source family in forestry.